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[PATCH] staging: sm750fb: free cmap on framebuffer release

From: Lucas Costa <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-22 03:53:21
Also in: linux-staging, lkml
Subsystem: staging - silicon motion sm750 frame buffer driver, staging subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Sudip Mukherjee, Teddy Wang, Sudip Mukherjee, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds

The driver never calls fb_dealloc_cmap() after it has been allocated,
so when the buffer is torn down we leak.

This happens on every unbind, and when an error is detected in
sm750fb_framebuffer_alloc().

fb_dealloc_cmap() gets called before framebuffer_release() in both places.

Fixes: 81dee67e215b ("staging: sm750fb: add sm750 to staging")

Signed-off-by: Lucas Costa <redacted>
---
 drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
index 8b93bfeb217b..92412534239c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
@@ -910,6 +910,7 @@ static void sm750fb_framebuffer_release(struct sm750_dev *sm750_dev)
 	while (sm750_dev->fb_count) {
 		fb_info = sm750_dev->fbinfo[sm750_dev->fb_count - 1];
 		unregister_framebuffer(fb_info);
+		fb_dealloc_cmap(&fb_info->cmap);
 		framebuffer_release(fb_info);
 		sm750_dev->fb_count--;
 	}
@@ -943,6 +944,7 @@ static int sm750fb_framebuffer_alloc(struct sm750_dev *sm750_dev, int fbidx)
 	return 0;
 
 release_fb:
+	fb_dealloc_cmap(&fb_info->cmap);
 	framebuffer_release(fb_info);
 	return err;
 }
-- 
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